Lookout man for ‘Texas 7’ set for execution

By: Joseph Brown, The Huntsville Item

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — He’s one of the last surviving members of the notorious ‘Texas 7’ prison escapees.

Pending final appeals, Patrick Murphy, who was convicted under the controversial law of parties after playing lookout during a deadly store robbery, is set to be executed on Thursday at the Huntsville “Walls” Unit. The law of parties states that a person can be held criminally responsible for the actions of another if in the attempt to commit one felony, another felony is committed by one of the conspirators.

Murphy would be the sixth member of the ‘Texas 7’ group to die, and fifth to be put to death by the state of Texas. The final member, Randy Ethan Halprin, has yet to have his date with death scheduled.

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